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For more about the attack, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/TECH\/02\/02\/twitter.phishing\/\">read CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has recently been hit by a rash of phishing attacks, where users get email messages with fake Twitter login links, in an attempt to steal Twitter account passwords. 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